Lead Cloud Engineer

• Minimum 7 years of DevOps and Cloud experience, preferably in a Software product company.
• Has familiarity with the retail industry domain.
• Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems

Job requirements:

• Experience in Azure DevOps is must
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime
• Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required
• Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components
• Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure
• Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery
• Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing
• Perform automatic backup / restore of production database
• Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost effective manner
• Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception
• Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed
• Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members
• Ensure that all SOC2 policies related to DevOps are followed and evidence for controls are maintained and submitted on time
• Contribute to the Organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

• Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps, BitBucket Pipelines
• Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc.
• Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.
• Knowledge of SonarQube or similar tools for static code scanning
• Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup
• Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems
• Certification in at least 1 public cloud system
• Strong interpersonal communications skills.
• Mentor the team and guide towards excellence
• Demonstrates attention to details.
• Has the ability to work in a lightweight process environment.
• Is self-motivated and capable of high performance in a periodic iteration cadence.
• Takes ownership of tasks and executes.
• Collaborate effectively with a distributed team.
• Mentor and develop junior talent
• Identify skill gaps for the junior team members and recommend certifications/trainings to address them
• Graduate or Post Graduate in Engineering / Computer Applications